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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 2</span><span class="fp-text">PROLOGUE</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber II</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="AUCTOR  (orig.)"><span class="fp-difference">PROLOGUS</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="PROLOGUS  (texte subst.)"><span class="fp-difference">AUCTOR</span></span></span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Le genre d'Ésope est tout en exemples,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et on ne doit y chercher que le but de ses fables&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">corriger les erreurs des hommes,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et exciter en eux une vive émulation.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Quelle que soit donc la nature d'un récit,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">s'il captive, et remplit son objet</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">il se recommande de lui-même, sans aucun nom d'auteur.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Aussi suivrai-je scrupuleusement les traces du vieillard phrygien ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">mais si, pour varier un peu mes narrations,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">je croyais bon d'ajouter quelques récits,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">prends-le, Lecteur, en bonne part ; c'est du reste par la brièveté</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">que je veux acheter ton indulgence ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et pour n'être pas diffus en la réclamant,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">écoute pourquoi on doit refuser aux gens avides,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et donner aux modérés ce qu'ils n'ont point demandé.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Exemplis continetur <span class="fp-correction" title="Esopi  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">Aesopi</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="Aesopi  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">Esopi</span></span> genus,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">nec aliud quicquam per fabellas <span class="fp-correction" title="queritur  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">quaeritur</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="quaeritur  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">queritur</span></span></span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quam corrigatur error ut mortalium</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">acuatque sese diligens industria.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Quicumque fuerit ergo narrandi locus,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">dum capiat aurem et servet propositum suum,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">re commendatur, non auctoris nomine.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="Aequidem  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">Equidem</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="Equidem  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">Aequidem</span></span> omni cura morem servabo <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n83/mode/1up">p.20</a>]</span> senis ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">sed si libuerit aliquid <span class="fp-correction" title="interpone  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">interponere</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="interponere  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">interpone</span></span>,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">dictorum sensus ut delectet varietas,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">bonas in partes, lector, accipias velim,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ita, <span class="fp-correction" title="sic  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">si</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="si  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">sic</span></span> rependet illi brevitas gratiam.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Cujus verbosa ne sit commendatio,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">attende cur negare cupidis debeas,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">modestis etiam offerre quod non petierint.</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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